Maria Celesté Airaldi

Maria Celesté Airaldi is a clinical psychologist who graduated with honours from the Catholic University “Nuestra Señora de la Asunción” in Paraguay. She specialises in Rational Emotive Behaviour Therapy (REBT) and Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT), and completed advanced training at the Albert Ellis Institute, where she was certified as a supervisor. She also holds a postgraduate qualification in university teaching from the National University of the East and is a doctoral candidate in psychology at the University of Palermo.

In 2011, she received a fellowship from the Beck Institute, where she trained in CBT for depression and anxiety disorders with Dr Aaron T. Beck and Dr Judith S. Beck. She subsequently completed further training at the Institute in the teaching and supervision of CBT.

Maria is President of the Paraguayan Academy of Cognitive and Behavioural Psychology (APPCC) and Director of the Sensorium Psychology Center. She has authored chapters and articles on REBT and CBT in Spanish, Portuguese, and English. Having previously held university teaching positions, she now teaches postgraduate courses at institutions in Paraguay and internationally.

She served two consecutive terms as President of the International Association for Rational Emotive Behaviour Therapy, from 2021 to 2023 and from 2023 to 2025.